{"id":20200,"date":"2025-05-18T11:50:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T15:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=20200"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:10:36","slug":"natalie-sue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/natalie-sue\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Sue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Natalie Sue is a Canadian author of Iranian and British descent. Sue lived in many parts of western Canada, briefly in Scotland, and now lives in Calgary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I Hope this Finds You Well: A Novel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

HarperCollins, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As far as Jolene is concerned, her interactions with her colleagues should start and end with her official duties as an admin for Supershops, Inc. Unfortunately, her irritating, incompetent coworkers don\u2019t seem to understand the importance of boundaries. Her secret to survival? She vents her grievances in petty email postscripts, then changes the text color to white so no one can see.That is until one of her secret messages is exposed. Her punishment: sensitivity training (led by the suspiciously friendly HR guy, Cliff) and rigorous email restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When an IT mix-up grants her access to her entire department\u2019s private emails and DMs, Jolene knows she should report it, but who could resist reading what their coworkers are really saying? And when she discovers layoffs are coming, she realizes this might just be the key to saving her job. The plan is simple: gain her boss\u2019s favor, convince HR she\u2019s Supershops material, and beat out the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as Jolene is drawn further into her coworkers’ private worlds and realizes they are each keeping secrets, her carefully constructed walls begin to crumble\u2014especially around Cliff, who she definitely cannot <\/em>have feelings for. Eventually she will need to decide if she\u2019s ready to leave the comfort of her cubicle, even if that means coming clean to her colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2025 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour<\/a> (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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You’ll Love It Here<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

HarperCollins, 2026.
Forthcoming August 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

One day is all it takes for Mona\u2019s life to implode. After years of climbing at her marketing firm, she was supposed to be getting promoted and finally moving out of her crumbling apartment building. Instead, she\u2019s jobless, aimless, and still stuck in a space barely big enough for a yoga mat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then her eccentric landlady takes a tumble and asks Mona to step in as the building\u2019s reluctant super. The deal is simple: help prep the place for sale, and she can secure the upgrade she\u2019s been chasing. But that\u2019s easier said than done when the neighbors treat \u201cboundaries\u201d as optional. There\u2019s the shouting couple, the mysterious shut-in, a possible panty thief in the laundry room\u2014and Sami, the relentlessly cheerful diner owner who keeps showing up with coffee and unsolicited ideas about community. As Mona gets pulled deeper into the building\u2019s chaos\u2014and closer to the people inside it\u2014she\u2019s forced to confront what, and who, she\u2019s really been trying to outrun. Sometimes, the place you\u2019re desperate to leave is the one that finally shows you who you are.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Natalie Sue personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher HarperCollins Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Natalie Sue is a Canadian author of Iranian and British descent. Sue lived in many parts of western Canada, briefly in Scotland, and now lives in Calgary. Fiction I Hope this Finds You Well: A Novel HarperCollins, 2024. Publisher’s Synopsis … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20200","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20200"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21790,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20200\/revisions\/21790"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}